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'The North' is more than just a geographical area. It is a place of cold and hardship on the one hand and of welcome solitude and opportunity on the other - a place requiring adaptation and compromise. The medical practitioners responsible for providing healthcare to the populations of these regions endured the daily hardships of...

Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and HealthHealth is formed, nurtured, lived and denied in a surrounding environment. Worldwide, people seek out places that provide the right conditions for good health. The meanings attributed to health or illness however are socially constructed, and so provide an interesting arena for...

Scratching the SurfaceDiseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. With obvious and sometimes repellant outward signs of malady, they were often perceived to be highly contagious, as well as synonymous with immorality. Such connotations may have stemmed from the tell-tale buboes of syphilis, but the...

The Dangerous Age of ChildhoodStewart presents a history of child guidance literature in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare state. Concepts widely used in this guidance also played a part in broader social and cultural perceptions of what constituted a child's healthy...

The Dangerous Age of ChildhoodStewart presents a history of child guidance literature in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare state. Concepts widely used in this guidance also played a part in broader social and cultural perceptions of what constituted a child's healthy...

Before the 1832 Anatomy Act the only legal source of cadavers for medical use was the bodies of executed murderers. As anatomy became the dominant medical discipline of the nineteenth century, the need for bodies as a teaching tool increased exponentially. Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study....